
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Ah… this one carries weight.
This is Exhibit III: The Resurrectionist’s Rope — a length of coarse hemp once used by William Calcraft, London’s most notorious executioner. It appears simple. Functional. The sort of object history rarely pauses to look at closely.
But this rope stood at the meeting point of two dark trades: those who stole the dead, and the man paid to create them.
This exhibit explores public execution in nineteenth-century London, the blurred line between justice and spectacle, and the machinery that turned death into routine. It is not a story about guilt or innocence. It is about process. About repetition. About what happens when killing becomes administrative.
Some objects remember hands.
Step closer — but not too close.
By Rob Bradley4.6
5050 ratings
Ah… this one carries weight.
This is Exhibit III: The Resurrectionist’s Rope — a length of coarse hemp once used by William Calcraft, London’s most notorious executioner. It appears simple. Functional. The sort of object history rarely pauses to look at closely.
But this rope stood at the meeting point of two dark trades: those who stole the dead, and the man paid to create them.
This exhibit explores public execution in nineteenth-century London, the blurred line between justice and spectacle, and the machinery that turned death into routine. It is not a story about guilt or innocence. It is about process. About repetition. About what happens when killing becomes administrative.
Some objects remember hands.
Step closer — but not too close.

37,618 Listeners

45,010 Listeners

4,886 Listeners

1,871 Listeners

369,907 Listeners

3,799 Listeners

2,914 Listeners

2,577 Listeners

17,881 Listeners

10,283 Listeners

5,614 Listeners

29,159 Listeners

9,076 Listeners

1,448 Listeners

1,143 Listeners